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But can any of you remember a circumstance where the explainer or the excuser is actually being wronged?

Is there any such thing as a false positive that any of you remember?

That's a good one, because I didn't even remember that one.

The cynicism around this feels to me like it's earned just because the league does this so rarely and has to be careful about doing it because you're taking $12 million from somebody.

It was not reported as he was wrong.

He was claiming that is HGH or testosterone that's being sent to my wife, allegedly, and then it just faded away.

You guys were surprised, were you not, by the Paul George thing?

Like, the way that that thing ends up happening, I think everyone has the same reaction, which is

I understand that we're used to these guys cheat.

These guys try to cut every corner.

Nobody is actually innocent.

However, when a suspension arrives, it does so as a bombshell.

Like Paul George being suspended for 25 games suddenly takes over the sports news stream.

But you're not surprised by it?

No, no.

Oh, but I guess what I should have said, the way that I should have phrased it is there's an initial surprise.

And then what you do is you sort of go through the library of, oh, old player just made nine threes, has been struggling with a great many injuries.

Like you go retroactively and you do the biography.

But the initial news report to me landed like, whoa, I was surprised.

But it had less to do with Paul George than it does with how infrequently that league does that.